THE TEMPEST

On Tour

April 4 - April 27

For information about the sit-down production at The Public, visit this page.

Prospero, a powerful magician and the rightful Duchess of Milan, has been usurped by her brother and has escaped to a remote and barren island. There, despite the unforgiving landscape, she has tried her best to make a home for her daughter, Miranda. When Prospero conjures a powerful storm to sink her brother’s ship, she must decide how to deal with him and his confederates, who have washed ashore. How will she exact her long awaited revenge? How do you satiate a desire for justice? Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery directs this Mobile Unit production that journeys across the five boroughs and The Public’s Astor Place home.

Mobile Unit is a reinvention of Joseph Papp’s Mobile Shakespeare program, beginning in 1957 with the simple idea that theater belongs to everyone, evolving into the New York Shakespeare Festival and ultimately becoming The Public Theater. Now in its eighth year, the Mobile Unit meets audiences where they are by presenting world-class Shakespeare and other works in recreation centers, prisons, senior centers, schools, and other community gathering places across the five boroughs. The Mobile Unit has already toured Henry V, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, The Comedy of Errors,Macbeth, Pericles, Measure for Measure, Richard III, and Much Ado About Nothing.

Mobile Unitis made possible with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Tow Foundation, The McLaughlin Children's Trust, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Abrams Foundation. Additional support provided by JetBlue Airways, Open Society Foundations, Susan & David Edelstein, The MAE Private Foundation, and The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Season support provided by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust provides leadership support for The Public Theater’s year-round activities.

Mobile Unit National is made possible by the Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Denise Littlefield Sobel.

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Tickets are FREE and OPEN to ALL.Please refer to the tour stop below on how to RSVP.

Mobile Unit - The Tempest

Okay, but what is clowning? We can all think of the scary Pennywise clowns – but what about the lauded and misunderstood theatrical art-form? This video, care of the American Theatre Wing, will help explain (and make you laugh, too).

The Mobile Unit

As The Public’s Mobile Unit brings touring productions to (among other locations) correctional facilities, we can’t help but also be thinking about the larger picture of correctional behavior in this country and what it means to incarcerate someone. This New York Times deep-dive has us all a little bit sick to our stomachs and ever-more-convinced that the way incarceration functions in this country must evolve.

If you know someone incarcerated, do them a favor for me.

Inmate Name ##inmate number##
Jail Adress St
Jail City
Jail state and Zip
Thats how you adress a letter to some one that you care about when they are locked up.

Love even behind bars and plates of glass, because every one needs love. That letter will mean so much to them. The worst part of the system is the isolating lonliness. If they give up on the outside, if they feel there’s nothing to cry about, they will be back. Give them someone to miss and something to follow the rules for. Save them.

The Mobile Unit

A really great reminder, for anyone out there who knows someone incarcerated: write to them. @chingybaby‘s post says it better than we could ever.